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This Mini Optical Mouse has been my primary pointing device for about a week, now. Like all things portable, it's a little awkward to use and doesn't seem to work right all of the time.How I Got It:I just sort of ended up with this mouse because it was the cheapest of two on-the-rack at the college bookstore. The other was a nifty little Bluetooth mouse that was too pricey for me. I thought this one was only $9.99, but when I got to the register it was $19.99 - a full ten bucks more. Still, it was cheaper than the nifty, little Bluetooth one I really wanted.Since I have a laptop with a super-duper touchpad, I don't really need an external mouse at all. Unfortunately, I lost the install CD's for my netbook and had to downgrade from Vista to XP. That meant doing away with a lot of mousey error-correction stuff in Vista - making the touchpad waaaay too sensitive.I use an old, left-over Dell USB mouse and keyboard, but the mouse finally died on me. From time to time, and for no apparent reason, the mouse cursor would just fly off in some random direction. To replace it, I decided to just go ahead and get a portable mouse - and I'm glad I did.Retracts from the Middle?The mouse's USB cable retracts from both directions into a spring-loaded spool in the middle. That's like a fishing line with the sinker set ten feet away from the hook and bait. It weighs it down in the middle. Fortunately, since the whole USB cable and retractor mechanism is extremely light weight, it doesn't affect my pointer accuracy at all.Fully extended, the entire cable is about a meter (3 feet) long. You shouldn't extend it that far very often though, because it also puts the maximum strain on the spring-loaded retractor and reducing its useful lifespan the most. Fortunately, although I've been using it a lot and knocking it around a lot, the wires have remained intact and the retractor works as well as it did the first day.
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Aspiring occupational therapists must complete both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in the field before they can earn their license. For this reason, several universities offer combination occupational therapy programs, the first half of which will award graduates with a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy degree.
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So I did not plan well at all, this is my second year at growing tomatoes, last year was a disaster so I had no success. This year all my heirlooms are reaching for the sun, I planted them in late march and they are setting fruit like crazy and starting to ripen.
My problem is they are over 7 feet tall, out grown the junky 54inch cages and the limbs are breaking off and cages are wanting to topple over. I have secured the cages to a near by fence so they wont fall over. I am tying the limbs up to the fence to hold them up straight but they are taller than the fence now. from what i am aware i have a really long season and almost no frost where im at till december. what should i do?
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If y ou can let them grow over the fence and back down ?Not uncommon |
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I would love to see some pictures. Sounds like your very lucky. Happy Tomato Harvesting : D -Kristina K. |
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ok so here are a few pictures you can see the one toppling over, the others are still growing straight up, but for how long im not sure I didnt know how to add pictures with the link i put my pictures up on google photos, then added the link, hopefully i didnt violate any rules, if i did i will take them down asap. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-x_jYQLAjv0M/Tf40hcnz2LI/AAAAAAAAABI/zScELx1UECg/s512/IMG_0235.JPG https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ANiFzazEUIY/Tf40htwojhI/AAAAAAAAABQ/yq4W9om9hP8/s512/IMG_0236.JPG https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eAvvrnUlTTU/Tf4208BNQhI/AAAAAAAAABo/hmvGIzokKEc/s512/broken.jpg |
What a nice problem to have! Here are your photos pasted in for everyone to see... Those are some pretty plants!! Mine are about a foot tall so this prob won't be a problem for me. Karen |
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My mother-in-law used to cut hers off. Of couse she was only 5 feet tall. It didn't seem to bother them any. Maybe try it with one plant and see how it does? I hate to have them break off from the weight! |
here is another picture, and im trying out adding a picture and i got it to work. so i will be adding lots of pictures from now on. thanks guys. |
Nice job with the photo DTray ! I am still jealous of how tall your plants are :) Mine are small but I found lots of small tomatoes today. Karen |
Thats awesome karen, thank you for the info on how to post the pictures. |
Is it normal for them to grow that tall? Yes. Do they usually outgrow their cages? Yes. Happens to all of us who grow indeterminate varieties. You just let them drape back down over the top of the cages. The branches will bend and a few may even appear to break a little but they keep right on growing. Should you cut them back? Not unless you want to lose production. If you want plants that don't outgrow their cages then stick with determinate varieties. Dave |
If that house on the other side of the fence isn't yours the neighbors will be happy! :) Beautiful plants! |
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Nice plants! If you want to add some extra support, you could buy some 8 foot sections of 1/2" thick rebar and drive one next to each plant to use as a stake. They need to be driven at least a foot into the ground to remain stable. Just get some twine or nylon string and loosely tie the escaping branches to the rebar, and you should be able to get a few extra feet of vertical growth before they flop back over. I think that would be the least intrusive way to add support to your plants at this stage if you choose to do so. Happy Gardening! Michael |
Sounds like you're complaining about success. I haven't come close to getting my container mixes right for use in Miami. If I get 3' from a plant, I'm doing well. Since I don't have this "problem", I don't have any answers. Sorry. |
I use PVC for cages and just let them grow. They'll grow up just so far and then they'll flop down and keep growing. Put something on top of the wire cage to cushion the I don't have to since 3/4" PVC is much larger so I don't |
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July 1, 2005
Current version of Visual Web Developer
I posted a question in the ASP.NET forums asking about what is the current build of Visual Web Developer:
Custom Build Providers
I came across this blog entry from Fritz Onion today about an experience that he had with Custom Build Providers:
Valid Rss is probably a good thing
Like Duncan, I just checked my Rss feed. Guess what?
Do you have any small ASP.NET Whidbey working demo's
Lately I've been playing around with the Whidbey a bit more, focussing on such things as UrlMapping, WebParts and Profiles. In that time I've been doing things in a rather ad-hoc manner.
A small but noteable design change to the ASP.NET Portal Framework
In ASP.NET V2 the new portal framework looks very interesting. It seems to me that this framework will lend itself very nicely for building applications which allow for a plug-in style of architecture and therefore make re-use of componentize UI widgets much more prominent.
compressing javascript code in perl
While sneaking around the web tonight looking at sites which have interesting dhtml controls or cool stylesheets, I came across this article:
Data access strategy in Whidbey
Fredrik has blogged some great Whidbey posts - not to mention his 3,000 or so posts on the www.asp.net forums! Recently he wrote a couple of articles about some of the data access techniques which are available in Whidbey. First he looked at the Data Component which allows to quickly and easily create Crud-like data access layers:
Next tool - a blogging application
Before I start my rant I should say that .Text is pretty decent web app.; it's seems way more complex than it needs to be and it's very difficult to install but there's a lot of great implementation code in there. Last week while unsuccessfully trying to get it installed and create some initial users I decided that, for my next application I'm going to build a blogging app. Much of the API design and feature-set is done and I'm currently working through the technical architecture.
Koders - searchable repository of code snippets
Found this site via Mitch's blog:
Test entry
This is a test entry
Evilness and me
I can't believe that I'm less evil than Mitch.
Next ProjectDistributor release
I'll be uploading the source for the next version (1.0.2) of Project Distributor on the weekend and, be upgrading the live site to run off of that version. Here is the list of new features which appear in this release:
Using metadata and reflection to dynamically manage message routing
Most routing systems have a transformation phase where, based on its current state, a message is transformed into a document and routed to an endpoint. Systems such as BizTalk provide GUI's and designers to remove the need for cumbersome coding by making the rules and subsequent transformations configurable; here's an example of a switch statement in a listener class where the rules of the routing engine are hard-coded:
public static void MessageArrived( Message message ) {
switch( message.MessageState ) {
case MessageState.Initial:
Console.Write( Transformer.CreateRequest( message ) );
break ;
case MessageState.Submitted:
Console.Write( Transformer.CreateApproval( message ) );
break ;
case MessageState.Approved:
Console.Write( Transformer.CreateInvoice( message ) );
break ;
case MessageState.Saved:
Console.Write( Transformer.CreateReport( message ) );
break ;
Console.Write( Notifier.NotifyError( message ) );
break ;}
}If there's extra "noise" in the MessageArrived method, it can become hard to maintain as the length of the switch gets longer. It can also become hard to maintain if there are repetitive code chunks within each case.
In the above cases you can - at a moderate performance cost - re-factor the common code away into a generic method. Looking at the above example, one neat way to achieve this is to ascribe metadata to the MessageState enum so that it can be inspected at runtime and the routing lookup driven from that metadata. First, let's create an attribute to contain our lookup data and add it to the MessageState enum:
[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Field, Inherited=false, AllowMultiple=true)]
public class WorkflowAttribute : Attribute {
public WorkflowAttribute(Type type, string methodName) {
this.Type = type ;
this.MethodName = methodName ;
public Type Type;
public string MethodName ;
public enum MessageState : short {[WorkflowAttribute(typeof(Transformer), "CreateRequest")]
Initial = 1,[WorkflowAttribute(typeof(Transformer), "CreateApproval")]
Submitted = 2,[WorkflowAttribute(typeof(Transformer), "CreateInvoice"),
WorkflowAttribute(typeof(Notifier), "NotifySalesGuy")]
Approved = 3,[WorkflowAttribute(typeof(Transformer), "CreateReport")]
Saved = 4,[WorkflowAttribute(typeof(Notifier), "NotifyError")]
Unknown = short.MaxValue
}Notice that I applied 2 worklow attributes to the MessageState.Submitted enum value.
Now I can re-factor the original MessageArrived method into a generic message handler routine:
public static void MessageArrived( Message message ) {
MessageState state = message.MessageState ;
FieldInfo field = state.GetType().GetField(state.ToString()) ;object[] attribs = field.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(WorkflowAttribute), false) ;
for( int i=0; i<attribs.Length; i++ ) {
WorkflowAttribute att = attribs[i] as WorkflowAttribute ;
if( att != null ) {
MethodInfo method = null ;if( att.Type.GetMethod(att.MethodName).IsStatic ) {
method = att.Type.GetMethod(att.MethodName) ;
Console.Write(method.Invoke(null, new object[] {message}));
object instance = Activator.CreateInstance(att.Type) ;
method = instance.GetType().GetMethod(att.MethodName);
Console.Write(method.Invoke(instance, new object[] {message}));
}I've uploaded a working demo of this to ProjectDistributor:
SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 Transact-SQL Enhancements
Great, in-depth article about some of the new TSQL language features. Definitely worth a read...
noFollow in Google...
Saved for later reading... http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2005/01/18/355551.aspx
ControlState in ASP.NET V2
Fredrick has a great post about the new ControlState feature in ASP.NET V2:
2 interesting Msdn articles
An interesting article about writing code to test UI:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/01/TestRun/default.aspxAlso, there's an article by Kent Sharkey about merging Rss feeds:
This is a useful article with a great summary of the make-up of the Rss schema and some nice API design tips too! As an added bonus, the reader is invited to watch as Kent has a Dates induced meltdown towards the end of the article.
Cool screen capturing tool
Named Groups, Unnamed Groups and Captures
I see this question come up a bit in regex so, I thought that I'd blog about it. It has to do with 2 things: named groups and captures. First, an example...
The question isn't: what did I get; the question is: what did I pay - or so it seems!
After several unsuccesful days of trying to implement trackbacks into ProjectDistributor I'm going to put it on the backburner for a while. It's not that I don't want it in there, it's just that time is short and the ability to get useful help about working with .Text seems a little short these days... {sigh}
MbUnit... It's all green baby; it's all green!
Last night I started moving some of the PD logic out of the web project and into a Framework project so that it is more accessible to other components. This resulted from some refactoring of the app. That I've been doing since implementing UrlRewriting and Trackbacks. I created UrlManager, and UrlFormatter classes to handle some of the url matching logic and thought that I'd start building a library of Unit Tests against this new stuff.
What I'm going to show you now is a bit of a code dump but, take a scan through it then we'll discuss what went on...
[TestFixture] public class TestUrlManager { public TestUrlManager() {} [RowTest] [Row("http://www.projectdistributor.net", false)] [Row("http://projectdistributor.net", false)] [Row("http://www.projectdistributor.net/Foo", true)] [Row("http://www.projectdistributor.net/Projects/Project.aspx?foo=bar", false)] [Row("http://projectDistributor.net/", false)] [Row("http://projectDistributor.net/Foo/", true)] [Row("http://projectDistributor.net/Foo/default.aspx", true)] public void TestIsGroupInUrl(string url, bool isGroupUrl) { bool result = UrlManager.IsGroupNameUsed(url) ; Assert.AreEqual(isGroupUrl, result) ; } [RowTest] [Row("http://www.projectdistributor.net", "")] [Row("http://projectdistributor.net", "")] [Row("http://www.projectdistributor.net/Foo", "Foo")] [Row("http://www.projectdistributor.net/Projects/Project.aspx?foo=bar", "")] [Row("http://projectDistributor.net/", "")] [Row("http://projectDistributor.net/Foo/", "Foo")] [Row("http://projectDistributor.net/Foo/default.aspx", "Foo")] public void TestExtractName(string url, string groupName) { string result = UrlManager.ExtractGroupName( url ) ; Assert.AreEqual(groupName, result) ; } }
...ok, as you can see, I'm testing the IsGroupNameUsed and the ExtractGroupName logic of the UrlManager class. Notice how I can use attributes to drive test data into the test method by using the RowTestAttribute and the RowAttribute classes and attaching them to the methods that I want to run as unit tests.
The ease of TestDriven.NET
Because I'm using TestDriven.NET, I can now right click in the class, choose "Run Tests" and voila! MbUnit presents me with a web page representation of the red and green lights that you've seen via other unit testing frameworks such as Nunit.
Duplication kills
So that's pretty easy right? Well, yes and no. Look at that duplicated data there. And what happens when I have 10 tests? And what happens when I need to change the Row data? That's right& all this duplication will end up working against me at some point.
Combinatorial Tests to the rescue
I knew that Peli would have the answer - after all, he did write it! - so, after a quick scan of his blog I discovered the combinatorial tests.
Combinatorial tests allow me to create a factory which will produce my data and, for each enumerated item returned by the factory, a strongly typed data member can be returned to my unit test method.
Let's start& create a Data Class and a Factory
For my purposes a simple data class to encapsulate my test objects will suffice and then a simple factory method to create and return an array of that data:
// A simple data class to encapsulate the attributes of my driver data public class UrlData { public UrlData( string url, string groupName ) { this.Url = url ; this.GroupName = groupName ; } public string Url; public bool IsGroup{ get{ return this.GroupName.Length > 0 } }; public string GroupName; } [Factory] public UrlData[] GetUrlData() { UrlData[] items = new UrlData[9] ; items[0] = new UrlData("http://www.projectdistributor.net", string.Empty) ; items[1] = new UrlData("http://projectdistributor.net", string.Empty) ; items[2] = new UrlData("http://www.projectdistributor.net/Foo", "Foo") ; items[3] = new UrlData("http://www.projectdistributor.net/Projects/Project.aspx?foo=bar", string.Empty) ; items[4] = new UrlData("http://projectDistributor.net/", string.Empty) ; items[5] = new UrlData("http://projectDistributor.net/Foo/", "Foo") ; items[6] = new UrlData("http://projectDistributor.net/Foo/default.aspx", "Foo") ; return items ; }
Re-Wire and Re-run
Now, all that remains is to re-wire the test methods to use the factory and right click to re-run the tests again...
[CombinatorialTest] public void TestIsGroupInUrl([UsingFactories("GetUrlData")] UrlData item) { bool result = UrlManager.IsGroupNameUsed( item.Url ) ; Assert.AreEqual(item.IsGroup, result) ; } [CombinatorialTest] public void TestExtractName([UsingFactories("GetUrlData")] UrlData item) { string result = UrlManager.ExtractGroupName( item.Url ) ; Assert.AreEqual(item.GroupName, result) ; }
It's all green baby; it's all green! :-)
Instant Messenger 7 - good and bad
I installed the new beta version of the Instant Messenger client last week. The UI is really nice and they've added some great new features. The 2 most obvious of these are "Nudges" and "Winks". Nudges allow you to "shake" the IM client of the person that you are chatting with... I haven't really worked out when is the optimum time to use these yet.
AssemblyReflector - event based discovery of assemblies
AssemblyReflector (Conchango.Code.Reflection) is an event-based assembly parser - it allows assemblies to be searched for Attributes, Events, Fields, Interfaces, Methods, Nested Types, Properties and Types, by subscribing to the relevent OnDiscover event and then performing a search for the member based on several available search methods;
o Contains(string)
o EndsWith(string)
o Named(string)
o OfType(Type) - Attributes Only
o StartsWith(string)
o WithBindingFlags(BindingFlags)
When an event is raised you can access the discovered member via the EventArgs -
Melbourne Geek Dinner and future Canberra Geek Dinners
While I was in Melbourne, I arranged to get a few of the guys together for a geek dinner. This followed hot on that tail of the first one in Canberra a few weeks back. People attending this one were:
· Cameron Reilley - http://reilly.typepad.com/ (Australian Podcasting mogul)
· Matthew Cosier - http://weblogs.asp.net/autocrat/ (Melbourne Microsoft guy and InfoPath extraordinaire)
· William Luu - http://www.will.id.au/blog/ (active Melbourne community guy) -
Presenting and Facilitating
I spent the past couple of days in Melbourne with several other Readify guys doing a course about "presenting and facilitating".
There were some great moments and also some real highlights. It was fascinating to learn some of the little tip-n-tricks that you can use when you are speaking/facilitating that can help to get your message across and also to make your talks more participatory.
Some of my most important learning's were:
- Eye contact. It's important to make eye contact with the people that you are talking to and to maintain eye contact for about the length of a thought.
- Structure. On the first day I had a presentation which was a sea of data& by day 2 this was packaged nicely into a structure that made it much easier to present and also, for the audience, much easier to digest.
- Interventions. We discussed interventions - which are small break-up activities designed to get people up on their feet. These are used to get things going and to stimulate everyone.
- The humble 'B' key. When you are doing PowerPoint presentations, you can press the 'B' key to make the screen go black and again to bring back your presentation to the screen. Use this when you want to talk and not compete with your slide.
Overall it was an awesome experience which taught me a lot. It was also great to catch up with the other Readify guys. For those of you who know any of the guys you can imagine how vibrant, collaborative and enthusiastic the sessions were :-)
A new PostXING feature coming...
Chris hinted at a new PostXING feature:
Made some improvements to the TrackBack Prototype
I refactored the code a bit and added trackback validation:
Mitch's Shrinklet App
A cool little tray based app for creating "shrunken" urls...
Prototype of a small trackback system
Last night I prototyped a small trackback system:
Learning about Trackbacks
Today I learnt a lot more about Trackbacks - I had as I'm hoping to implement them in ProjectDistributor.
Master Pages and building "nice" sites
Brian is seeking community feedback around the topic of MasterPages to help ascertain the value of the ASP.NET team including some standard, out-of-the-box templates with the product. Read his blog entry here:
Justin's fine; busy, but fine.
Finally managed to get in touch with Justin over the last night. He's been busy getting things done and drifting in and out due to Christmas activities... added to that, he had taken the Christmas break to rebuild his home intranet. Not sure when we'll see him around again but it's good to know that everything is OK.
More ProjectDistributor activity - auto updater and upcoming features
Jonathon de Halleux (aka: "Peli") has just published a neat little helper assembly written in Whidbey which uses the ProjectDistributor webservices and can help detect whether there is a new Release available for download for a given project.
Today was a day of software installation
So, today I installed:
SVGViewer so that I could view the Assembly Graphs generated by Reflector.Framework
MicrosoftAntiSpyWare - this looks great.
NCover so that I can see how much of my total code base is being exercised by my unit tests
TestDriven.NET so that I can run unit tests from VS.NET
MbUnit so that I can write unit tests (MbUnit actually comes with the TestDriven download).
Still trying to track down Justin
Quite a few people have left comments and e-mailed me directly regarding the whereabouts of Justin ( http://weblogs.asp.net/dneimke/archive/2005/01/04/345973.aspx ), so I thought that I'd leave this message to let everyone know that I'm still following up on this.
Me not nerd
Entering the world of TestDriven.NET
I've been giving serious consideration to writing a limited set of Unit Tests for the ProjectDistributor codebase - in particular, tests against the web services and several web scenatios. Today I started that journey by downloading TestDriven.NET:
Partial Book Review: Extreme Programming Adventures in C#
You have to love the new world of collaboration
Tonight I jumped on IM and sent a message of congratulations to Roy about his MVP award (apparently he got it 4 months ago... news to me!).
ProjectDistributor 22.214.171.124 Source Code now available
The latest version of the ProjectDistributor source code is now available - this is the same version that the website is running. You can grab the code here:
Has anybody heard from Justin Rogers lately?
Justin Rogers is a brilliant guy who helped me a great deal last year with many projects. He is a prolific writer, blogger and developer... or at least he was up until early November.
PD website now running on new version
I uploaded the new ProjectDistributor version to the server yesterday, so, the site is now running on that. Existing users will notice some changes when they login.
Chuck is blogging
Charles Sterling, Developer Evangelist extroadinaire is blogging. Charles (aka Chuck) looks after the scuba diving technologies from the shores of sunny Gold Coast, Australia. I can just picture him sitting down by the waterfront by his home there blogging away while reeling in a Mackerel and swigging away on a nice cold Fosters :-)
First post from rebuilt laptop.
First post from PostXING on my newly built laptop :-) All-in-all it took me about 6 hours to get from woe to woe to woe to go. Along the way it was useful to follow in the footsteps of my sagacious colleague Mitch who built his machine only a day prior to me doing it.
New ProjectDistributor release
I'm just testing the release for the next version of ProjectDistributor. This release includes bug fixes from the previous release as well as the following new features:


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I've accumulated a number of IWB holsters at this point, and one thing I am consistently disappointed in is the cheap and overly large belt clips most holsters have.
My primary gun belt is only 1 1/4" wide, so 2" standard belt clips are far too long, and too noticeable - as you can see on my N82 holster here:
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I'm interested in the Comp-Tac standard clips or C-clips that can be ordered in custom sizes and several colors: Mounting Options - They're kind of pricey - $17 plus shipping for one pair.
Does anyone here use a holster with the Comp-tac standard clips or c-clips on it? If so, what do you think of these clips?


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The Antikythera Mechanism is an ancient artifact discovered circa 1900 CE on a shipwreck known as the Antikythera wreck. The Mechanism is thought to be the world's oldest analog computer yet discovered (dating, scientists think, to the 1st or 2nd century BCE). The Mechanism apparently calculates calendar cycles and positions of celestial bodies using a shockingly intricate system of clockwork-style gears -- though its purpose has been the subject of debate for decades, as gears can be used for lots of... READ ON
Claude Shannon is famous among geeks; he's considered the "father of information theory." He built one of the earliest chess-playing computer programs, and he worked on early wearable computers, and he made a killing applying his research to gambling. But Shannon was also a bit of a joker; he invented something called the "Ultimate Machine," a machine whose sole purpose was to turn off a switch that had been turned on by its user. Sneaky little bastard. Wikipedia says: One of [Shannon's] more... READ ON
Have you ever wondered why a goat has square pupils, or how bugs can see through their strange compound eyes? A recent article I wrote for Environmental Graffiti answers these questions and more by sharing the science behind 10 fascinating types of animal eyes. The facts are pretty interesting. Hippos, for example, have a thing layer of membrane to protect their eyes from debris under the water. Nocturnal geckos can close their long, zig-zagged pupils to let in all but the tiniest bit of light during a... READ ON
Apollo 11 launched on July 16, 1969, on its way to the moon. In the video below, Mark Gray shows slow-motion footage of the launch (a Saturn V rocket) and explains in glorious detail what's going on from a technical perspective -- the launch is very complex, and lots of stuff has to happen just right in order to get a safe launch. The video is mesmerizing, the narration is informative. Prepare to geek out about rockets! (Did you know the hold-down arms actually catch on fire after the rocket lifts... READ ON
On April 22, NASA announced 20 years of Hubble Space Telescope pictures. Yes, our little buddy Hubble has been up there for 20 years, happily sending images back to us. NASA has collected videos, a Greatest Hits photo archive, and even a book showing Hubble's best work. Here's my favorite Hubble photo: Orion... READ ON
I've always been a little more scared of water snakes than land snakes, because they're so much more stealthy. But a new study says that it's really the striped water snakes you need to look out for. Research shows that white-and-black striped turtle-headed seasnakes (like the one seen above, photographed by Flickr user PacificKlaus) are up to 20% faster than their all black counterparts because algae seems to only grow on the black areas of their skin. Scientists have long wondered why most seasnakes... READ ON
In the TED Talk below, Jane Poynter discusses her experience living for two years (plus 20 minutes) in Biosphere 2 in the early 1990s. In short, the experiment was to find out how to create a sealed, self-sustaining ecosystem. This was a huge challenge, and ultimately they had to add oxygen to the environment to make it work (more on that in the talk). Poynter talks about the Biosphere 2 experiment in some detail (as much as fifteen minutes allows), complete with lots of photos and personal... READ ON
Matthew Weathers is a math professor at Biola University, and he likes a good gag. For April Fools' Day this year, he played the prank below on his students, in which his "shadow" on a projection screen started to misbehave. All sorts of interesting stuff begins to go down, including manipulation of a computer desktop, and even removal of the desktop entirely, allowing us to "see through" the projection screen to the blackboard behind it. Ultimately the president of the university has to step in and... READ ON
UC Berkeley Ph.D. student Jeremy Maitin-Shepard has developed a robot capable of folding towels. Watch in the video below as the robot inspects, folds, and stacks the towels. (Note that the video is running at 50 times real speed. This robot ain't snappy, but he works long hours.) To be clear, the robot itself is a general-purpose machine, but Maitin-Shepard et al wrote the software for folding towels. From the research paper: We proposed a cloth grasp point detection algorithm which has been... READ ON
It doesn't matter how old you are—almost everyone has a memory of Mr. Wizard. Whether it was on NBC or Nickelodeon's, Don Herbert, the man behind the safety goggles, taught scientific lessons to children for nearly 50 years. There is a really amazing (but sadly not embed-able) series of interviews on YouTube that I can't recommend highly enough. But in the meantime, check out some of his greatest hits here. Watch Mr. Wizard In 1951, Don Herbert hit TV sets all across the country as Mr. Wizard, a... READ ON
In 1726, Mary Toft convinced British doctors that she was giving birth to rabbits.


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We use Rotokegs a lot, we bulk prime it with sugar and top it of with a co2 cannister, similar to the one you use for sodastream.
Proud member of Home Brew Tuesday.
I learned something today. Thanks all for the links. This wasn't my issue but an excellent example on how the HBT community works.


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I even saw Queen drummer Roger Taylor's enormous, oligarch-shaming yacht parked on the Helford River. I couldn't pick out Brian May sunbathing naked on the deck with my binoculars, though believe me when I say I did try.


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''Only 8 percent of Americans believe that U.S. businesses did a great deal or a lot to help the environment during the past year, as in 2006,'' Krosnick said. ''And 71 percent want them to do a great deal or a lot to help the environment during the next year, which is slightly but significantly lower than the 76 percent we saw in 2006. Again, this decrease was greatest among Republicans-from 64 percent in 2006 to 53 percent in 2007.''
According to the survey, 70 percent of Americans also believe that Congress should do ''a great deal'' or ''a lot'' to help the environment during the next year-slightly but significantly less than the 75 percent figure in 2006. This decrease was most marked among Republicans-from 63 percent in 2006 to 49 percent in 2007.
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Approval of the President's handling of the environmental issues remained as low as one year ago-20 percent in 2007 compared to 21 percent in 2006. Fifty percent of Republicans approved of the president's performance on this issue, compared to 47 percent last year. ''Essentially no Democrats approved of the president's handling of the issue in 2006, and this is still true today,'' Krosnick said, noting that only 5 percent of Democrats approved of Bush's actions last year and 8 percent approved this year-an insignificant increase.
Americans' approval of Congress's handling of the environment remained constant during the past year-16 percent compared to 15 percent in 2006. Among Democrats, there was virtually no change during the past year, with approval of congressional performance at 10 percent (11 percent in 2006). Among Republicans, approval is at 19 percent (25 percent in 2006).
Approval of U.S. businesses' handling of the environment also stayed constant, at 22 percent (21 percent in 2006). ''Republicans approve of U.S. businesses significantly more than do Demo
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Flavia Pennetta?
Mar 24th, 2003, 12:24 AM
has anyone seen her play? what sort of game does she have? what's her serve like? can she volley? does she have good speed and foot movement? what are her groundies like?
Mar 24th, 2003, 12:50 AM
i saw her beat iva on friday :sad:
she has a very good serve and is also solid off the ground. her strokes are flat. her best shot is her flat backhand cc and her backhand drop shot is also great. she never comes into the net, she will move back to the baseline after hitting a mid-court shot. her movement is ok, but could be better.
Mar 24th, 2003, 12:53 AM
when you say she has a good serve do mean it is powerful? or that it is accurate? or that it is both? or do you mean it is reliable?
also when you say solid off the ground do you mean consistent and reliable or do you mean she has pretty good pace on her shots.
thanks for the info btw.
Mar 24th, 2003, 03:25 AM
no one else has seen her play?
King Lindsay
Mar 24th, 2003, 03:34 AM
I have never seen her play, Gowza, but I have noted her unheralded rise up the rankings. Looks like Italy can boast another good player.
Mar 24th, 2003, 04:46 AM
I've only seen her on clay but that was when she was 16 in the NEC World Youth Cup Finals (which Italy won)
Her serve is pretty effective but she does tend to throw in a few doubles from time to time.
Hits flat, she doesn't like to come in though, much happier at back of court.
Movement good be alot better but she's pretty good on the clay which is her best surface IMO.
but to hit more winners at back of the court than Lindsay even when losing is very encouraging for Flavia :)
She'll be moving up nicely in the clay season (Top 50 for sure, hoping for Top 40 though)
Mar 24th, 2003, 06:56 AM
I saw her play last April in a challenger final. She lost to Mi-ra Jeon(Korea) there,... and I'm a fan of Mi-ra, so I had to be there to watch Mi-ra's first challenger event victory. :D and the venue was only 15 minute drive from my office,... so I was there. ;)
She hits balls flat both sides,.. and has better bh than fh, I think. And her back hand dtl was good, too. She looked like a semi-power player to me. She doesn't look tall or big,.. but tries to hit harder than her frame,.. and it causes some UEs,.. And I learned that she would have some problem if she plays some defensive players who can hit some balls back,.. cause after some hittings during the rally, she made some UEs,.... And she had some fighting spirit and very sensitive to line calls and audience (during service and return), I guess.
That's all I remember about her.. Oh,..I can't forget her violet outfit which was semitransparent... :eek: :o Anyway she just looked good to me. ;)
And in an interview,.. she likes to play on hard court than clay,.. so she had traveled far away from home during European clay court season.
But I think she would have changed a lot since then. Cause at that time she was just a good challenger level player,.. but now she must have improved so much to be in top 100 and to record some wins on WTA tour event.
Good luck, Flavia~~
Mar 24th, 2003, 08:23 AM
I saw her in Sopot . She is very good player . She hits flat almost all the time , runs very good and like almost all women players she doesn't go to the net .
Mar 24th, 2003, 08:32 AM
Well it sounds like this was the Italian girl's first real big match today. To take a top player to three sets and lose is nothing to feel that bad about.
Sounds like Flavia will keep Italy's hopes alive for the future.
Mar 24th, 2003, 11:50 AM
yup, her dress was semi-transparent on friday as well
her frist serve is powerful, her second serve is an accurate kick serve
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I think I know how I lost that little bit, but am not entirely sure. Still though. I can't wait to pop one in honor of my daughter's birth.
Posted 18 May 2011 - 09:13 AM
I'll be drinking on my third brew, a nut brown ale, while doing this. Nutty Monkey. It's damn good. 5.8%.
What are you guys doing? lymelizzard? BruceBrewski? anyone?
Posted 18 May 2011 - 09:21 AM
I am planning on taking my beer to the my work today and pouring them into glasses and taking pics to show colors. I'll post them later.
This weekend I am gonna make another 2 batches. I am making another Summer Ale, maybe the same recipe, maybe not. Then I am going to make a highland gaelic ale clone.
The exciting part is that I am going to try to get into kegging this weekend. I am searching for a kegerator or a good deal on a mini fridge to make it into one.
Which would be amazing, because I could bring it to Huddle tailgates and plug it into my truck. Craft Draft at the tailgate!
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Its just a more fun process.
I think after my next two beers, I am going to make an DFH Aprihop clone.
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Posted 26 May 2011 - 06:25 PM
Really awesome. Love when they turn out this way.
I've got 46 more, stop by for a brew.
Posted 07 June 2011 - 10:22 AM
What do you carbonate with, and how long does it take to finish?
I've used carbonation drops for my first few, but used priming sugar this last time, and I'm wondering how long I should give it.
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Posted 01 July 2011 - 07:59 AM
i plan to do a pale ale next. not sure when though.
Posted 31 July 2011 - 07:41 AM
i got an icecube cooler that i modified to fit a carboy but i still can't get it down as low as I want. Any suggestions?
Posted 31 July 2011 - 08:28 AM
Put the carboy in something larger and surround it with water. Drape a t shirt over the carboy and let it hang into the water. The shirt will draw in moisture and drop the temp of the beer around 5 degrees. I read that you want the t shirt all the way up to the airlock and that you can also use a towel but it would me more likely to mold.


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July 19 (Bloomberg) -- A man police said they believe to be Sean Hoare, a former reporter at News Corp.'s now-defunct News of the World tabloid, was found dead at his home yesterday.
The death is being treated as unexplained. and isn't thought to be suspicious, police in Hertfordshire, England, said in a statement today. Hoare was the first person to allege that former News of the World editor Andy Coulson encouraged phone hacking by his staff, the Guardian newspaper reported.
Hoare worked as an entertainment reporter at the News of the World with Coulson, who resigned as U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron's press secretary this year as a result of the scandal arising from the phone-hacking accusations. Coulson was arrested on July 8 by police investigating phone hacking.
David Sonn, a lawyer for Hoare, said yesterday that the death was "a terrible tragedy."
There is no evidence of third-party involvement, and the death is not suspicious, Hertfordshire Police said in a recorded telephone message after a post-mortem was performed today. Police are waiting for the results of toxicology tests, the statement said.
London's Metropolitan Police are investigating allegations that reporters at the tabloid hacked into the phones of celebrities, politicians, and murder and terror victims, and that they bribed police to obtain information for stories. The scandal led News Corp. to shutter the 168-year old News of the World and led to the resignations of two senior executives at the company.
Hoare, who first alleged in an interview with the New York Times last year that Coulson encouraged his reporters to hack into mobile phones, had worked with Coulson at News Corp.'s Sun tabloid before he was dismissed for drug and alcohol problems, the Guardian said yesterday.
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The police reopened the probe in September of last year after a report in the New York Times citing Hoare as saying that everyone at the News of the World knew about phone hacking. The tabloid said in a statement at the time that the article "contained no new credible evidence" and was "motivated by commercial rivalry."
Hoare refused to comment to police after the New York Times report, leading prosecutors to close the probe again because of a lack of evidence, Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer said in December. Coulson has said he didn't know the hacking was taking place.
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FBI foils Minnesota terror attack by militia nutball
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FBI officials said Monday they foiled a terrorist attack being planned in a small western Minnesota town, but they offered no details about the exact targets of the attack – or the motive of the man accused of having a cache of explosives and weapons in a mobile home.
The FBI said "the lives of several local residents were potentially saved" with the arrest of Buford Rogers, 24, who made his first appearance Monday in U.S. District Court in St. Paul on one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm…
"The FBI believed there was a terror attack in its planning stages, and we believe there would have been a localized terror attack, and that's why law enforcement moved quickly to execute the search warrant on Friday to arrest Mr. Rogers," said FBI spokesman Kyle Loven.
He said the investigation is ongoing, and agents are looking at the case as one of domestic terrorism…
Montevideo Police Chief Adam Christopher said a homemade sign in front of the mobile home that bore the letters "BSM" refers to a local anti-government militia group called the Black Snake Militia, which the Rogers family started.
"That is not a large scale, nationwide group, as far as I know," Christopher said. "I think it's kind of them, and their family, and a few of their friends…"
According to a federal affidavit, FBI agents from the domestic terrorism squad searched the mobile home in Montevideo and discovered Molotov cocktails, suspected pipe bombs and firearms. The affidavit said Buford was there at the time, and one firearm recovered from the residence was a Romanian AKM assault rifle.
In an interview with authorities, Rogers admitted firing the weapon on two separate occasions at a gun range in Granite Falls, the affidavit said. Rogers has a 2011 conviction for felony burglary and is not allowed to have a firearm.
Of the several flavors of outright crazy right-wingers clustered around profit centers ranging from the NRA to Fox Noise the militia-types are the most dangerous. Unlike true lone wolf terrorists, they feed each other's paranoia constantly.
Just makes them all the more likely to start killing whoever they fear the most – this week.
Congressman back after 32-years – says corruption overwhelming
NRA + the rest of the Old Right opposed him. He won by 9 points.
First elected to the House in 1974, Rep. Rick Nolan, D-Minn., left after his third term ended in 1981–and now after a 32-year hiatus, Nolan is back. Much to his surprise, the biggest change he's encountered was the work week, and he's not happy about it…
"My first term, we worked 48 out of 52 weeks," Nolan said on Friday's edition of The Daily Rundown. "Most of those days were four and five day weeks. We were in committee virtually every morning, we were on the floor of the House throughout the afternoons and the evenings and we were working in the process of governing which is what we're elected to do."
He expressed his disappointment that Congress is only currently scheduled to work 34 out of 52 weeks and considers most of those days "not real."
"We went into session Monday, for example, we don't have any votes scheduled until 6:30 in the evening, we were also scheduled to work on Tuesday–which we did–and then we were scheduled to work on Wednesday and we took the day off," Nolan said.
Nolan quickly agreed with the public's sentiment "everybody's campaigning and nobody's governing," saying Congress isn't governing like they should especially with all the serious issues the country is facing. He told Todd that the time given for Congressional members to campaign and the money they use has become "toxic."
"I mean, we're told here two things," he said. "One is the one with the most money gets the most votes and number two – you should be spending 30 hours a week in fundraising and call time–dialing for dollars."
Though I would prefer it, we do not need a change to an elected parliamentary form of government to get rid of the overwhelming influence of money – and whose money it is – in our government. Simply limiting campaign time to the 60 days before an election, severely limiting the amount of money that can be spent during that time – and only that time – takes care of half the problem.
Add in the sort of regulations that governed lobbying 50 years ago and you remove the other half of the corruption equation. The problem facing both of these provisions is that it limits the profits from a congressional career. Not that it matters in the least to the actual governing of this nation.
What matters is having a Congress that isn't for sale to the highest bidder.
Minnesota casino serves record-breaking cheeseburger
A Minnesota casino has cooked up a world-record bacon cheeseburger that's 10 feet in diameter and weighs more than a ton.
The behemoth burger was served up on Sunday at the Black Bear Casino Resort near Carlton in the United States. It tipped the scales at 914 kilograms.
Guinness Records representative Philip Robertson verified the record for biggest burger…He called the achievement a team effort, saying that the extraordinary burger tasted good as well.
"What I saw today was a feat of remarkable teamwork that resulted in a world record burger that actually tastes really good," Mr Robertson said…
Black Bear's burger included 27 kilograms of bacon, 23 kilograms of lettuce, 23 kilograms of sliced onions, 18 kilograms of pickles and 18 kilograms of cheese.
It took about four hours to cook the patty. A crane was used to flip it.
I can feel my arteries hardening just reading this.
Green cremation open for business in Minnesota
A Scottish company has installed its second "Resomation" machine, in the US state of Minnesota…The new facility in Stillwater, Minnesota, has already processed the remains of 20 individuals.
Resomation involves the dissolution of the deceased in an alkaline solution, and is billed in the US as "green cremation" or "flameless cremation".
A first machine was installed in Florida last year, and has been used on 10 bodies to date.
Sandy Sullivan, chief executive officer of Resomation Ltd, said the machine was running very efficiently after some fine-tuning…"We've developed the process to a stage where it's running very well. I'm happy with where it is," he told BBC News.
"There has been refinement in software changes and pipe work changes to make it quieter and things like that, but the machine is running very smoothly."
Resomation involves the heating of the remains at some 300C in a pressurised vessel containing a potassium hydroxide solution…The process takes around three hours and reduces the body to skeletal remains which are processed into a white powder which can be given to the family, like ash from crematoria…
Its makers claim it produces a third less greenhouse gas than cremation, uses a seventh of the energy, and allows for the complete separation of dental amalgam for safe disposal.
Mercury from amalgam vaporised in crematoria is blamed for a proportion of airborne mercury emissions worldwide.
If they can keep the cost comparable to or below conventional cremation, I'm all for the idea. Though I live in a county which permits home burial and I may end up someday tucked away in a burlap sack out in the back meadow.
Sleazy medical bill collector to pay $2.5 million settlement in Minnesota – what are other states doing about these thugs?
Accretive Health, one of the nation's largest collectors of medical debt, has agreed to pay $2.5 million to the Minnesota state attorney general's office to settle accusations that it violated a federal law requiring hospitals to provide emergency care, even if patients cannot afford to pay…
As part of Monday's settlement, Accretive Health is also barred from contracting with hospitals within the state for at least two years, effectively ending its business at three Minnesota hospitals. For four years after that, the company will have to obtain permission from the attorney general before resuming business in the state.
In April, Lori Swanson, the Minnesota attorney general, disclosed hundreds of Accretive's internal documents that outlined aggressive collection tactics, including embedding debt collectors in emergency rooms and pressuring patients to pay before receiving treatment…
In an interview Monday, Ms. Swanson said "a hospital emergency room should be a sanctuary for the sick and wounded, not a hunting ground for collectors." The settlement will end a civil suit against Accretive, which Ms. Swanson filed in January after a laptop with patient information was stolen, saying that the company had violated state and federal debt collection laws and patient privacy protections…
The revelations in Minnesota have reverberated across the country because they raise concerns that such aggressive tactics have become widespread at hospitals. Accretive Health contracts with some of the largest hospital systems in the country to help them recoup money on unpaid bills that have piled up during the financial crisis and the economic downturn…
Hospitals have long hired outside collection agencies to pursue patients after they have received care. But mounting financial pressures have resulted in hospitals letting collection firms in the front door, turning over the management of their staffing, like patient registration and scheduling, along with their collection activities, according to Ms. Swanson…
Corrupt administrators of hospital systems have been turning over private records to Accretive to aid them in harassing patients. They are at least as slimy as the rest of the hustlers leading the parade of greedy healthcare providers.
RTFA for anecdotal tales of people lying bleeding in a hospital's emergency room – instead of a caring nurse or doctor standing by their side, they found themselves questioned by an extortion specialist trying to pry their last dollar from their wallet or purse before allowng medical care. The ultimate Republican healthcare portable death panel.
These gangsters operate in nationwide hospital chains, attacking patients in almost every state. Where is the protection guaranteed by federal law? Why aren't the state's attorney generals protecting civil rights?
Hospital debt collector hassles patients awaiting surgery, accesses patient records, violates privacy
You don't pay up, on time – we'll remove your stitches with a rake!
Hospital patients waiting in the emergency room or convalescing after surgery could find themselves confronted by an unexpected visitor: a debt collector at bedside.
One of the nation's largest medical debt-collection companies is under fire in Minnesota for having placed its employees in emergency rooms and other departments at two hospitals and demanding that patients pay before receiving treatment, according to documents released Tuesday by the Minnesota attorney general. The documents say the company also used patient health records to wrangle for more money on overdue bills.
The company, Accretive Health, has contracts not only with the two hospitals cited in Minnesota but also with some of the largest hospital systems in the country, including Henry Ford Health System in Michigan and Intermountain Healthcare in Utah. Since January, it has faced a civil lawsuit filed by Attorney General Lori Swanson of Minnesota alleging that it violated state and federal debt-collection laws and patient privacy protections…
An Accretive Health spokeswoman declined to comment on whether other states were looking into its practices. "We have a great track record of helping hospitals enhance their quality of care," she said…
Indistinguishable from medical staff members, Accretive employees register patients, take down sensitive health information and champion aggressive bill collection goals with incentives like gift cards for staff members, the company records show.
"It is absolutely stunning that the company has systematically trampled on patient rights, perverting the charitable mission of a hospital," Ms. Swanson said in an interview…
While hospital collections increased, patient care plummeted, the employees said. "Patients are harassed mercilessly," a hospital employee told Ms. Swanson. Another hospital employee complained, "We were told if we don't get money from patients, in the emergency room, we will be fired…"
By giving its collectors access to health records, Accretive violates the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, colloquially known as HIPAA, Ms. Swanson said.
Anyone surprised that hospital systems that often mimic criminal extortion would rely on tactics akin to loan sharks?
Oops! of the Day
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In this photo provided by Minnesota State Patrol, a semi truck is submerged in an icy pond in Monticello, Minn. on Friday, Jan. 6, 2012. The Minnesota State Patrol says the driver was taken to a local hospital, treated and released. Patrol Lt. Eric Roeske says the driver was pulling a Target trailer, left eastbound I-94, crossed over lanes of oncoming traffic and skidded onto the pond. Roeske says the semi skidded 100 to 200 yards across the ice before breaking through.
Looking at videos of the accident, the ice appears thick enough that the driver almost – that's almost – made it across the pond.
Sewage plants may be contributing to antibiotic resistant bacteria
Water discharged into lakes and rivers from municipal sewage treatment plants may contain significant concentrations of the genes that make bacteria antibiotic-resistant. That's the conclusion of a new study on a sewage treatment plant on Lake Superior in the Duluth, Minn., harbor…
Timothy M. LaPara and colleagues explain that antibiotic-resistant bacteria — a major problem in medicine today — are abundant in the sewage that enters municipal wastewater treatment plants. Treatment is intended to kill the bacteria, and it removes many of the bacterial genes that cause antibiotic resistance. However, genes or bacteria may be released in effluent from the plant. In an effort to determine the importance of municipal sewage treatment plants as sources of antibiotic resistance genes, the scientists studied releases of those genes at the Duluth facility.
Although the Duluth facility uses some of the most advanced technology for cleaning wastewater — so-called tertiary treatment — the study identified it as an important source of antibiotic resistance genes. Sampling of water at 13 locations detected three genes, for instance, that make bacteria resistant to the tetracycline group of antibiotics, which are used to treat conditions ranging from acne to sexually transmitted diseases to anthrax and bubonic plague.
LaPara's team says their research demonstrates that even the most high-tech sewage treatment plants may be significant sources of antibiotic resistance genes in waterways.
Crap! What will we do as an alternative? Do we add more chemicals to the process – possibly increasing dangerous materials in the effluent? Our population everywhere in the West adds pharmaceuticals that slide through sewage like grease through a goose. How much of that is involved in the processes which lead to these genes surviving, mutating?
The sludge being treated becomes more dangerous every year – as it is.
Midwest farmers on the alert for pig rustlers
Here in pig country, the pigs are vanishing.
This month, 150 pigs — each one weighing more than an average grown man — disappeared from a farm building in Lafayette despite deadbolts on its doors. Farther north near Lake Lillian, 594 snorting, squealing hogs disappeared last month, whisked away in the dark.
And in Iowa, with added cover from the vast stretches of tall cornfields, pigs have been snatched, 20 or 30 at a time, from as many as eight facilities in the last few weeks, said the sheriff of Mitchell County, adding that among other challenges, the missing are difficult to single out.
"They all look alike," said Curt Younker, the sheriff, who said he had only rarely heard of pig thefts in his decades on the job. "Suddenly we're plagued with them."
Some livestock economists pointed to the thefts in this hog-rich region as…a reflection of record-high prices for hogs this year and the ease of stealing pigs from the large barns that are often far from the farmer's house.
"This is the hot commodity of the moment, like copper…and gold," said Ryan Bode, whose family company, Rebco Pork, discovered that 150 of its pigs were missing on Sept. 16, shortly before they were to be taken to market…
Mr. Bode seemed doubtful about seeing his pigs again. "My guess is that they're bacon and pork chops already…"
Investigators suspect that the pigs may have been taken to meat-processing plants or affiliated "drop-off" facilities or that they were sold at auction barns, which are less common these days as more large pig producers have direct arrangements with food-packing companies.
But that has raised an uncomfortable suggestion in an industry where many of the biggest farmers and pork buyers know one another personally and where a stranger pulling up to sell 100 hogs should give pause.
"Someone in the business somewhere has the answer as to who's doing this," said Sheriff Marc Chadderdon.
RTFA. Crime stories are a magnet for me. Not only catching the thieves; but, how the thieves pulled off the job.
Some of the article is hogwash. :) It's absurd for an informed journalist to blame the lousy economy for the thefts – though she tries to. It's the skyrocketing value of the pigs that motivates these crooks. Easy access to something worth stealing – and someone ready to buy.
Phony lawyer, phony notary, forger – and also a pimp!
The website advertising legal services from Thomas J. Lyon & Associates boasts about Lyon's victories for clients. "We win cases all the time," the site says. "It's what we do…"
But Lyon is not an attorney. He's been using another person's Wisconsin Bar license number, that of attorney Thomas J. Lyons who has a practice in St. Paul, Minn., according to a criminal complaint. Lyon also has used the notary stamp of a dead notary public and forged the signature of court officials, the complaint says.
Prosecutors on Friday charged Lyon with practicing law without a license, theft, forgery and related charges tied to Lyon's legal practice…
The receptionist also said she was one of several prostitutes working for the escort service "Lacuna Limited" that Lyon had set up in Milwaukee. She told an investigator that she helped to recruit new prostitutes for the escort service…
A probation agent told a detective with the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office that Lyon is on probation after convictions of grand larceny, stalking and false imprisonment in New York. Lyon's probation was transferred to Wisconsin, the probation officer told the detective…
The system is better now that it has some checks, he said. But the Minnesota Lyons, the real Lyons said he was amused that the coincidence of the similar names allowed someone to trick court officials.
I don't think it's especially amusing that the court officials and everyone from local business folks to the police department never noticed [a] this clown wasn't a real lawyer and [b] he was fronting a string of hookers.
Doesn't sound like a surplus of integrity in Milwaukee.